Products / Picture Management Desk

Millions of digital pictures, thousands of users, one central solution

Real ROI
Nstein's PMD helped:
  • Global news providers serving daily newspapers and other media leverage PMD for all their publishing needs, with over 55,000 images processed every day

Today’s newspapers and magazine publishers handle thousands of images every day. With such volume, finding the right pictures, every time, in a matter of seconds, is not an easy challenge to overcome.

Geared towards high volume and rapid churn picture processing systems, the Picture Management Desk’s (PMD) real-time workflow solution handles millions of images of all types in a scalable and efficient manner.

Featuring intelligent workflows that automate the ingestion, storage, metatagging and transformation of all images, Nstein's PMD easily interfaces with existing sources such as editorial and page layout systems to simplify workflow, accelerate asset management and deliver a higher return on investment.

Prestigious publishers choose Nstein's PMD because it:

  • Centralizes images management allowing for various entities to feed from a centralized repository
  • Saves production costs via the automation of highly manual tasks, enabling publishers to reallocate production resources to value-added tasks
  • Provides advanced rights management to better leverage assets and reduce operating costs
  • Enables content repurposing and new revenue generation initiatives
  • Permits a resilient production in a scalable way
  • Improves collaboration between departments and user groups

PMD Specifications

Server platform

  • Linux 2.6 Kernel, Solaris 10, HPUX 11i v3 min.
  • 2 X 2 GHz multi-core 8GB RAM for handling 10,000 images a day

Storage

  • Internal server storage of 300GB min.
  • SAN storage: .5TB to provide two weeks of asset storage min.

End-user platform

  • Mac: Intel, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.3 min.
  • PC: 2.4 GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP SP2 min.

eLoader

  • Interaction with POP3 or IMAP mail server
Requires a 2nd failover server for mission critical resilience with the same specifications.